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Simply put, the econ-101 since the passage of the 16th Amendment in the U.S.A. has been aggressive defensive investment against government run inflations. On the passage of that amendment C.M.Pratt (In wikapedia) told my grand father Theodore Pratt that one might see incremental improvements in productivity from sudden inflows of cash into companies the government spent money on but; the authentic value increases would inevitably come from inflation giving one the opportunity to recoup "stolen-income" in capital gain. This policy has worked ever since and; as clearly as any, provides an over-lay of economic activity as one might want. The other problem with the 16th amendment amounts to formalizing mendacity in politics.
With $20,000,000,000,000.00 of national indebtedness all-in (Fannie, Freddie, Chrysler,G.M. & the rest of the nationalized items) plus the spending of $634,000,000,000.00 on a Canadian company?? to build-out the new federal last brass ring they've been grasping for health-care part; the future of our level of poverty through indebtedness calls on us to get out in each of the 435 districts and, putting the 2012 federal "Spending-Accomplishment" onto easels covered in plastic with blocks for the words yes & no by each line item for the public to weigh in on. Using red magic markers (Might want to invest in companies that make those now)and;digital photography to accumulate the results and; of course inviting the public to show up alphabetically (Parking considerations you know) will be the most comprehensive result of it's kind since William The Conqueror commissioned the Domes Day Book after that battle at Hastings to see what the value of that victory had netted him.
Point of departure though, all the federally run programs are & remain a source of investment opportunity owing to the trip-wires of the annual increases on them all to squelch debate on actual lowering of federal spending. The regular herding of "the children" out into the mine fields of intellectual dishonesty helps too. That this is plainly an unhealthy model should go without saying but; having had it foisted on us by Woodrow Wilson's progressive movement and; in 1943 the CPA from G.C.Murphy's showing FDR how a with-holding model might make WW2 a pay as you go activity & then from 1955-65, my own father working on the House Ways & Means Committee helping the building out the platform of America's modern misery-index known as the Progressive Income Tax? I believe had my mother understood the trajectory of that mischief, she might well have put his head on a stick.
But a national inventory of the annual spending accomplishments (I don't use the word budget since that's an abandoned practice recently) will, I believe animate the public and get the discussion of "Sun-Down Clauses" onto some of the spending such that each 24,48 & 72 months, our elected officials may be reminded as to the troubling public opinion of how the money supply's being managed:$85,000,000,000.00 a month from Treasury with the Fed running the bond-deal at the other end? A stock market being the only place to keep up now? Depend on it, a reckoning is below the horizon.(Put-options anyone?) Tamely sitting by awaiting the results of another couple of debates on the rise in the debt-ceiling simply won't do.
A public & constitutionally obvious national inventory showing the real opinion of how we feel about intergenerational wealth transfer would perhaps be an appropriate & comprehensive display of public opinion. Once a single district conducts such an inventory, the others would rush to be heard as well.
When ever I hear the word guarantee, I know there's a very low risk of a reward involved but; in this case I believe we'd see some very positive results. Any resistance to the accomplishment of a national-inventory would properly heat up the primary systems as well.
I defy anyone alive to show me a single federally run program or, for that matter any government run program anywhere that does not ultimately wind up adding to one's national indebtedness and; common sense (I love the English for having introduced that phrase "Commoner Sense) tells us all that prosaic economic analysis be damned until you get governments acting differently.
As an aside, with +50% of American voters alive for both the Clinton & Obama administrations, one might reasonably expect a collective sigh that "Enough is well & truly enough" next Nov.
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My comments concerne the european financial crisis.At the first time the existence of shopper's paradise not do that the Europe have the monney created problem.The problem is that this economic space not product again.In the classic analysis the monney creation take the same proportion with the level of real economic.If europe have the problem with their finance,it is not the shopper'sparadise problem,it is the real economic problem.Normally when one space have more monney than goods,this space shouls have the the inflation prolem.
Secondly,when you analyse the shopper's paradides,you see that this space has two caracters:his monney comes of a others regions of the Wordl and the goods of the space have the same origin by the firms of these regions.Our conclusions are that the shopper's paradises are the regions of a others countries of the Wordl.More the nationals of one county have their capital or teir monney and their industries in the shopper's paradise,more this shopper's paradise is an region of this country.
Thirdly you see now that the monney of European Union back in Europe by the nationals of this space.But the monney of Europe take the oriantations who not help the real economy like the games as poker,the television show(...).So the persons prefer put teir monney in the firms who can back the monney at the small time.In this moments,in the psychology of persons,this firm is the games,the public mouvements,the public events like the dance,the spactacles.The problem is not these events but it is that the real economy don't give the necessary assurance.
At finally the work of the european zone is to find how the monney can be grow in the Economc surface.The solution is to make the monney of Europe comes to the light,because your monney is in your home.The basic solution is to make grow the price of monney.You make that the interest of persons who have teir monney in the bank grow.The bennefist of this action is the call capitals of europeans.This method can help to have the credits to give at a companies who need funds for their investments.You put the interests at the level who can call many capitals then you reduce the rate more the year pass.Open the system with the growing of interests of capitals,after close the system with the oriantation of the investments in the real economy where the people needs to drink and product.The best economy is again the economy who give the food at bodies.If you like that my number card is 01110108301,the name of bank is Ecobank,the name of person is my mother Etono Lebah Née NGAH PERPETUE.Thanks is the Alpha 13,I whithe the Model 13 who speeks the General Equilibium.My english is not clean,i not that.
The letter writer did not mention the reasons why American health cover is so expensive.
There is a good reason why he (and the Economist magazine) never mentions the real reasons why American health cover is so expensive. This because the basic reason is government intervention - the web of regulations (mandates and so on) built up over decades, and the vast subsidy programs - that have the same effect on the price of health care that the government subsidies have on the cost of higher education. Even David Ricardo two hundred years ago understood that the inevitable consequence of government subsidy (or other intervention) was to inflate costs - but modern apologists for government interventionism write as if they did not know this
Obamacare (the Orwellian named "Affordable Healthcare Act") INCREASES both government regulations and government subsidies.
It takes the basic problem, government regulations and subsidies, and makes it WORSE.
The inevitable result of this will be to inflate (not reduce) costs - leading to the total collapse of what is left of the insurance model (not just for people who buy medical insurance as individuals - but with employers also dropping medical insurance and paying the fines instead).
Thus the United States of America will be left with a position where all those who can not pay doctors directly for treatment (assuming this is still legal in the future) will be forced into the hands of the government - although via phony (crony capitalist) "private providers" at first (till these go the way of the student loan providers - before the government takes over what it pays for).
I (like many others) strongly believe that this (the completion of the destruction of real private cover - and handing over the population to the government) was the intention of Obamacare from the start. It is not the website that is the problem - it is the basic PRINCIPLE (the principle of collectivism) that is the problem.
As Senator Rand Paul (himself a medical doctor) put it....
The end result will be that the bulk of the population will be on the equivalent of Medicaid.
Contrary to the letter writer above the principles of economics are not relative to time and place (any more than they are to race).
As Carl Menger showed (for example in his "The Errors of Historicism"), in opposition to the German Historical School, the laws of reason (of economics)are universal - there is no "capitalist reason" and "socialist reason" any more than there is "Jewish reason" or "Nordic reason" - there is just reason, the laws of human action that make up economics.
"Culture", "historical period", "race" (and on and on) do alter such basic facts as that prices and wages should be determined by the free action of supply and demand - not government edicts. See Ludwig Von Mises "Human Action".
The fact that Keynesian economics is nonsense (and it is nonsense - see works from Henry Hazlitt's "The Failure of the New Economics" to Hunter Lewis "Where Keynes Went Wrong") does not mean that economics is nonsense. Such basic rules as that lending from REAL SAVINGS (not credit-money expansion) remain valid - and are valid regardless of "race" or "historical period".
Producing more money (either the credit bubbles of bankers - or from the government printing press)does not produce lasting prosperity, "stimulating demand" is not what economics is about - Say's law was correct (not mistaken). And the key to reducing unemployment is a free labour market where wages and conditions of work are determined by supply and demand - not by printing more money.
As for connecting economics to the rest of the study of human action - that is a good idea, but connecting economics with the folly that passes for "the social sciences" in most universities is not a good idea.
The Econ's news editors tell our kids it WILL be a crisis while science hasn't agreed beyond "could be" a crisis so at least know what the consensus is that you are agreeing on?
Not one IPCC warning says; "will be" or "inevitable".
Until science says it WILL be it's still a 30 year old consensus of nothing you pathetically try to scare our kids with.
And what century are you living in?
*Occupywallstreet now does not even mention CO2 in its list of demands because of the bank-funded and corporate run carbon trading stock markets ruled by politicians.
*Canada killed Y2Kyoto with a freely elected climate change denying prime minister and nobody cared, especially the millions of scientists warning us of unstoppable warming (a comet hit).
*Julian Assange is of course a climate change denier.
*Obama had not mentioned the crisis in two State of the Unions addresses.
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Photon collection efficiency of fluorescent solar collectors
Kittidachachan, Pattareeya, Danos, Lefteris, Meyer, Thomas J.J., Alderman, Nicholas and Markvart, Tom (2007) Photon collection efficiency of fluorescent solar collectors. CHIMIA International Journal for Chemistry, 61, (12), 780-786. (doi:10.2533/chimia.2007.780).
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Photon collection efficiency of fluorescent collectors is examined experimentally and by modelling, with a
view to assess the potential of this attractive solar energy technology. The edge fluorescence of single dye collectors
based on Rhodamine 6G and Coumarin 540A, manufactured by a simple fabrication technique, is investigated
in detail. A novel technique for determination of the collection efficiency is presented based on the traditional model
of fluorescent collectors but extended to allow spectral analysis. We show that these results agree well with direct
solar cell measurements. General conclusions are presented about fundamental loss mechanisms and about the
role of re-absorption of fluorescent light. It is shown that substantial improvements in collector efficiency can be
made with the use of photonic fluorescence confinement rather than by total internal reflection.
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Why is it that when I am asked to estimate a project, I switch into abused-dog mode? My first instinct is to dive under the desk and whimper, which I promptly suppress in favor of other, hopefully more productive approaches.
So the last time I was asked, I stewed about it for 24 hours, talked with management-experienced friends, then finally did the sensible thing: I went to a colleague and 'fessed up. "I'm not that good at this. And not only am I not good at this, I can't calm myself enough to make myself good at this. May I get some help?" Why certainly. So yesterday we started to break down my project into finer detail. I drew up a spreadsheet with tasks, estimated each on a story point scale, added it up, and multiplied by 3 to account for the fact that I'm not Donald Knuth. I added a column for actual time, and hopefully, over time I will get an idea of the value of my own personal human coefficient, which I suspect will be rather high.
I reviewed Andy Lester's Preventing Crisis talk, and asked my former colleague Buddy Burden for the story point scale in use at Rent.
Story Points | The Buddy Scale | The Dave Scale |
dink | "We've already spent more time talking about it than it would take to just do it." | An issue added that is quick to implement i.e., < 1 hour, equivalent to .25 story points |
1 | "Pfft. That's nothing." | hours |
2 | "That's not too bad …" | hours to a day (or two) |
3 | "Not too awful, but non-trivial." | a few days |
5 | "This is some real work." | days to a week (or two) |
8 | "This is surprisingly difficult." | a few weeks |
13 | "This really sucks." | weeks to months |
21 | "There's no way one person could do this by themselves." | weeks to months for multiple people |
40 | "This is a major project." | months for multiple people |
100 | "If they truly understood how heinous this was, they wouldn't want to do it any more." | months for a lot of people |


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- verb - make confused or perplexed or puzzled
- adj - caused to show discomposure
- verb - to be troublesome to
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Persia in the Bible
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The History of Persia
Persia was originally a small territory (Herodot. 9:22). On the N. and N.E. lay Media, on the S. the Persian gulf, Elam on the W., on the E. Carmania. Now Furs, Farsistan. Rugged, with pleasant valleys and plains in the mid region and mountains in the N. The S. toward the sea is a hot sandy plain, in places covered with salt.
Persepolis (in the beautiful valley of the Bendamir), under Darius Hystaspes, took the place of Pasargadae the ancient capital; of its palace "Chehl Minar," "forty columns," still exist. Alexander in a drunken fit, to please a courtesan, burned the palace. Pasargadae, 40 miles to the N., was noted for Cyrus' tomb (Arrian) with the inscription, "I am Cyrus the Achaemenian."
The Persians came originally from the E., from the vicinity of the Sutlej (before the first contact of the Assyrians with Aryan tribes E. of Mount Zagros, 880 B.C.), down the Oxus, then S. of the Caspian Sea to India. There were ten castes or tribes: three noble, three agricultural, four nomadic; of the last were the "Dehavites" or Dali (Ezra 4:9). The Pasargadae were the noble tribes, in which the chief house was that of the Achaemenidae. Darius on the rock of Behistun inscribed: "from antiquity our race have been kings. There are eight of our race who have been kings before me, I am the ninth."
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The Persian Empire
The Persian empire stretched at one time from India to Egypt and Thrace, including all western Asia between the Black Sea, the Caucasus, the Caspian, the Jaxartes upon the N., the Arabian desert, Persian gulf, and Indian ocean on the S. Darius in the inscription on his tomb at Nakhsh-i-rustam enumerates thirty countries besides Persia subject to him, Media, Susiana, Parthia, Aria, Bactria, Sogdiana, Chorasmia, Zarangia, Arachosia, Sattagydia, Gaudaria, India, Scythia, Babylonia, Assyria, Arabia, Egypt, Armenia, Cappadocia, Saparda, Ionia, the Aegean isles, the country of the Scodrae (European), Ionia, the Tacabri, Budians, Cushites, Mardians, and Colchians.
The organization of the Persian kingdom and court as they appear in Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther, accords with independent secular historians. The king, a despot, had a council, "seven princes of Persia and Media which see his face and sit the first in the kingdom" (Esth. 1:14, Ezra 7:14). So Herodotus (iii. 70-79) and Behistun inscription mention seven chiefs who organized the revolt against Smerdis (the Behistun rock W. of Media has one inscription in three languages, Persian, Babylonian, and Stythic, read by Grotefend).
"The law of the Persians and Medes which alters not" (Esth. 1:19) also controlled him in some measure. In Scripture we read of 127 provinces (Esth. 1:1) with satraps (Esth. 3:12; 8:9; Xerxes in boasting enlarged the list; 60 are the nations in his armament according to Herodotus) maintained from the palace (Ezra 4:14), having charge of the revenue, paid partly in money partly in kind (Ezra 7:21,22). Mounted posts (unique to Persia and described by Xenophon, Cyr. 8:6,17, and Herodotus, viii. 98), with camels (Strabo 15:2, section 10) and horses pressed into service without pay (angareuein: Mt. 5:41; Mark 15:21), conveyed the king's orders (Esth. 3:10,12,13; 8:10,14), authenticated by the royal signet (so Herod. iii. 128).
A favorite minister usually had the government mainly delegated to him by the king (Esth. 3:1-10; 8:8; 10:2,3). Services were recorded (Esth. 2:23; 6:2,3) and the actors received reward as "royal benefactors" (Herodotus iii. 140); state archives were the source of Ctesias' history of Persia (Diod. Sic. 3:2.) The king lived at Susa (Esth. 1:2; Neh. 1:1) or Babylon (Ezra 7:9; Neh. 13:6). In accordance with Esth. 1:6, as to "pillars of marble" with "pavement of red, blue, white, and black," and "hangings of white, green, and blue of fine linen and purple to the pillars," the remains exhibit four groups of marble pillars on a pavement of blue limestone, constructed for curtains to hang between the columns as suiting the climate. One queen consort was elevated above the many wives and concubines who approached the king" in their turn." To intrude on the king's privacy was to incur the penalty of death (compare Herodotus, iii. 60-84 with Esth. 2:12,15; 4:11-16; 5).
Parsa is the native name, the modern Parsee; supposed to mean "tigers." Originally simple in habits, upon overthrowing the Medes they adopted their luxury. They had a dual worship, Oromasdes or Ormuzd, "the great giver of life," the supreme good god; Mithra, the sun, and Home, the moon, were under him. Ahriman, "the death dealing" being, opposed to Oromasdes. Magianism, the worship of the elements, especially fire, the Scythic religion, infected the Persian religion when the Persians entered their new country.
Zoroaster (the Greek form of Zerdusht), professing to be Ormuzd's prophet, was the great reformer of their religious system of Zoroastrianism, the contemporary of Daniel (Warburton 4:180, but according to Markham 1500 B.C., before the separation of the two Aryan races, the Indians and Persians) and acquainted with the Jewish Scriptures, as appears from his account of creation (Hyde 9; 10; 22; 31, Shahristani Relig. Pers.), and from his inserting passages from David's writings and prophecies of Messiah.
He condemns the notion of two independent eternal principles, good and evil, and makes the supreme God Creator of both (and that under Him the angel of light and the angel of darkness are in perpetual conflict) as Isaiah teaches, and in connection with the prophecy of Cyrus the Jews' deliverer from Babylon: "thus saith Jehovah to His anointed, Cyrus ... I will go before thee, I will break in pieces the gates of brass ... I form the light and create the darkness; I make peace and create evil."
Zoroaster taught that God created the good angel alone, and that the evil followed by the defect of good. He closely imitates the Mosaic revelation. As Moses heard God speaking in the midst of the fire, so Zoroaster pretends. As the divine glory rested on the mercy seat, so Zoroaster made the sacred fire in the Persian temples to symbolize the divine presence. Zoroaster pretended that fire from heaven consumed sacrifices, as often had been the case in Israel's sacrifices; his priests were of one tribe as Israel's. In his work traces appear of Adam and Eve's history, creation, the deluge, David's psalms.
He praises Solomon and delivers his doctrines as those of Abraham, to whose pure creed he sought to bring back the Magian religion. In Lucian's (De Longaevis) day his religion was that of most Persians, Parthians, Bactrians, Aryans, Sacans, Medes, and Chowaresmians. His Zendavesta has six periods of creation, ending with man as in Genesis. Avesta is the name for Deity. Zend is related to Khandas, "metre," from the same root as scandere, scald "a poet," "scan." Mazdao, his name of Ormuzd, "I am that I am," answers to JEHOVAH in Exo. 3. He expected a zoziosh or saviour.
Fire, originally made the symbol of God, became, as Roman Catholic symbols, at length idolized. The Parsees observe the nirang: rubbing the urine of a cow, she goat, or ox over the face and hands, the second thing a Parsee does in getting up in the morning. The women after childbirth undergo it and have actually to drink a little of it! The Parsees pray 16 times a day. They have an awe of light. They are the only orientals who do not smoke. The priests and people now do not understand one word of the Zendavesta. (Muller.) The Persian language was related to the Indian Sanskrit.
Achaemenes led the emigrating Persians into their final settlement, 700 B.C. Teispes, Cambyses I. (Kabujiya in the monuments), Cyrus I, Cambyses II, and Cyrus the Great reigned successively. After 80 years' subjection to the Medes the Persians revolted and became supreme, 558 B.C. Cyrus the Great conquered Babylon and restored the Jews (Isa. 44:28; 45:1-4; Ezra 1:2-4).
His son Cambyses III conquered Egypt (Ahasnerus, Ezra 4:6), but failed in Ethiopia. Then the Magian priest Gomates, pretending to be Smerdis, Cyrus' son, whom Cambyses had secretly murdered, gained the throne (522 B.C.), and Cambyses III committed suicide. He forbade the Jews building the temple (Ezra 4:7-22, Artaxerxes). By destroying the Persian temples and abolishing the Oromasdian chants and ceremonies, and setting up fire altars, Pseudo Smerdis aliented the Persians, Darius, son of Hystaspes, of the blood royal, revolted, and slew him after his seven months' reign.
He reverted to Cyrus' policy, by grant enabling the Jews to complete the temple in his sixth year (Ezra 6:1-15). Xerxes (Ahasuerus) his son held the feast in his third year at Shushan for "the princes of the provinces," preparatory to invading Greece. His marriage with Esther in his seventh year immediately followed his flight from Greece, when lie gave himself up to the pleasures of the seraglio. His son Artaxerxes Longimanus befriended Ezra (Ezra 7:1,11-28) and Nehemiah (Neh. 2:1-9) in their patriotic restoration of the Jews' national polity and walls. "Darius the Persian" or Codomanus (Neh. 12:22) was conquered by Alexander the Great (Dan. 8:3-7).
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BERKELEY CONNECT in SOCIOLOGY
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Have you ever wished for an intellectual mentor who knows all the ins and outs of Sociology, both at Berkeley and in the world? Or wanted to meet other sociology undergrads in a setting that didn't involve grades and homework? Or imagined figuring out what it actually means to read or argue like a sociologist? These are just some of the things you'll be able to do if you join Berkeley Connect in Sociology.
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Berkeley Connect links undergraduate students with experienced mentors in Sociology. These mentors lead small groups of 10-20 students in regular meetings; they also meet with students one-on-one to provide guidance and advice. The core of the Berkeley Connect program is a one-credit, pass-fail course that is designed to create a community of students with similar intellectual interests. There is no homework associated with Berkeley Connect: no exams, no papers, no quizzes. Instead, small group meetings focus on sharing ideas and learning new skills within the Sociology major as a way to foster friendships and provide a supportive intellectual community for Berkeley undergraduates.
The only requirement for joining Berkeley Connect in Sociology is that you have an interest in the field of study. You do not have to be a major in order to participate! Undeclared freshmen and sophomores are welcome, along with entering junior transfers and juniors and seniors who have declared the major.
Every semester, Berkeley Connect sponsors a wide range of activities and events for participating students. They include:
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At the heart of Berkeley Connect is the relationship between you and your mentor. The Berkeley Connect mentors are advanced graduate students s in Sociology, who are chosen both for their demonstrated commitment to undergraduates and for their scholarly achievement. They are dedicated to providing the kind of close-knit community and one-on-one attention that can be hard to find at a large university.
When you sign up for Berkeley Connect, you will join one of several small groups of participants in Sociology. Your small group will be led by your mentor, and will meet every other week during the semester for an hour-long dinner discussion sessions. Discussions will focus on key intellectual issues within Sociology as well as key skills you need to succeed in the major. Above all, the small groups will focus on building connections among students, so that each group becomes a supportive community for all participants.
You will also meet with your mentor one-on-one at least twice during the semester, once to get acquainted, and a second time just before Tele-Bears, to discuss your plans for completing your major. Your mentor also has office hours every other week, during which you are free to show up and ask questions, talk over your day or your week, discuss what you are learning in class, or just have an informal conversation.
Kim Voss (Director)
is Professor of Sociology. She began teaching at Berkeley in 1986, after earning her PhD at Stanford University. In 2004, she became the first female chair of the Berkeley Sociology Department. Voss's specialties are labor, social movements, inequality, and comparative-historical sociology. Her research has appeared in leading journals, as well as in several books, including Rallying for Immigrant Rights: The Fight for Inclusion in 21st Century America (coedited with Irene Bloemraad, University of California Press 2011), Hard Work: Remaking the America Labor Movement (with Rick Fantasia, University of California Press 2004), Rebuilding Labor: Organizing and Organizers in the New Union Movement (co-edited with Ruth Milkman, Cornell University Press 2004), Inequality By Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth (with 5 Berkeley colleagues, Princeton University Press 1996), and The Making of American Exceptionalism: The Knights of Labor and Class Formation in the Nineteenth Century (Cornell University Press, 1993). Her current research explores contemporary social movements, the emergence and institutionalization of a system of professions surrounding college admissions, and worker identities in a new era of immigration.
G. Cristina Mora
completed her B.A. in Sociology at UC Berkeley in 2003 and earned her PhD in Sociology from Princeton University in 2009. Before returning to Cal, she was a Provost Postdoctoral Scholar in Sociology at the University of Chicago. Professor Mora's research focuses mainly on questions of racial and ethnic categorization, organizations, and culture. Her forthcoming book, Making HIspanics, will be published by the University of Chicago Press and provides a socio-historical account of the emergence and diffusion of the "Hispanic/Latino" panethnic category in the United States. She is currently working on two new projects. The first examines how national Latino political organizations in the United States and Spain develop and implement panethnic agendas. The second assess clinical studies to explore how the rise of a HIspanic panethnic category influenced the discourse about race and medicine in the United States and abroad. In addition, Professor Mora's research on culture focuses on immigrant religion, as well as on the diffusion of Pentecostalism in Latin America. Her work is forthcoming or has been published in venues like the American Sociological Review, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Latino Studies, and Poetics.
Christopher Sullivan
received his Ph.D. from the Graduate Group in Sociology and Demography at UC Berkeley in 2013. His research examines ethnicity and inequality in China using a mixture of qualitative and quantitative methodologies. He is currently working on a project that looks at the extension of genetic technologies to understandings of Han Chinese identity. He will teach research methods in the Berkeley Sociology Department starting in the spring 2014 semester.
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Rafael Colonna
is doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology with a designated emphasis in women, gender and sexuality. Rafael's dissertation explores how LGBT families with children experience and manage stigma, drawing on intensive interviews with LGBT parents. While at UC Berkeley, Rafael has worked closely with undergraduates as a Graduate Student Instructor and as a Graduate Student Mentor for the Sociology Department's Senior Honors Program. He has also served as a Graduate Student Representative for the Chancellor's Advisory Board on the LGBT Community at Cal.
Emine Fidan Elcioglu
is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology and a former fellow with the Center for Research on Social Change at the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics and History from the University of Chicago. Fidan's dissertation research examines the politics of immigration at the Arizona-Sonora borderlands. In particular, her work looks at how pro-immigrant activists, on the one hand, and immigration restrictionist activists, on the other, make sense of the global political economy and how these contrasting understandings lead the two groups of activists to very different conclusions about (il)legality, nation, and difference. Fidan has also written about precarious forms of labor in the US, media depictions of undocumented migration, and the state's relationship to migrant deaths. Given that her own choice to pursue a career in academia was the direct result of the support and guidance she received as an undergraduate and graduate student, Fidan appreciates the importance of mentoring.
Angela Fillingim
is a PhD candidate in the department of Sociology. She was born in San Salvador, El Salvador and raised in Berkeley. Since 2005, she has done extensive work with the Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley on their project to identify children illegally adopted during the Salvadoran civil war (1980-1992) and to reunite them with their biological family members. In 2007 she graduated from UC Davis with a degree in sociology. Her fields of expertise are: human rights; immigration, Latin America, race, and political sociology. Her dissertation work examines the United States' response to human rights violations in Latin America between the years of 1976 and 1992, drawing on a content analysis of over 160 congressional hearings.
Margo M. Mahan
is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology. She has been a Fellow at the Center for Research on Social Change, and a Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Society. She holds a BS in Engineering from the United States Military Academy, an MA in Sociology from UC Berkeley, and an MA in Human Relations from the University of Oklahoma. Margo was an Army officer for eight years and a corporate management consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton. Her dissertation investigates the conspicuous inattention to male batterers in domestic violence debates, and the effects of their peripheral location in state domestic violence policy. She has over ten years of experience in battered women's and military family advocacy. She is the founder of the Breaking Silences Project and the His Story Project.
Kara Young
is a seventh-year doctoral student qualified in the fields of race and gender. She is originally from Cleveland, Ohio and graduated with a BA in sociology from Brown University in 2006. Inspired by a heightened awareness of the important role that food plays in her own holistic health, Kara embarked on an exploratory journey down the California coast. Along the way, she interviewed people about their relationships to food and became acutely aware of how her previous academic work, which interrogated linked structures of gender, racial, and class oppressions, was tied to and reproduced through our food system. She has since integrated these realizations into a dissertation project in which she investigates the emotional associations that individuals in different social structural locations have around buying and eating food. As an educator and musician, Kara has taught sociological and creative writing classes in high schools, universities, rehabilitation centers and state prison. She is presently a Graduate Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues.
Berkeley Connect in Sociology
Draft Syllabus, Spring 2015
1. Week of January 19-23
Monday, January 19: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. University holiday
OPENING MEETING, Wednesday, January 21, 6 p.m.
2. Week of January 26 -30:
Small groups #1
Getting to know you
3. Week of February 2-6
Meet Your Mentor: one-on-one meetings with Berkeley Connect Fellows
4. Week of February 9-13
Small groups #2
What to do when you want to build relationships with your professors or are lost and confused: How to talk with professors and GSIs
5. Week of February 16- 20
Monday-President's Day Holiday
Meet Your Mentor, continued: one-on-one meetings with Berkeley Connect Fellows, Tuesday-Friday
Panel on undergrad research: Wednesday, February 18
Reception to follow
6. Week of February Feb. 23-27
Small groups #3
Reading critically— and effectively
7. Week of March 2-6
Visits to the Library: Research Beyond Google
8. Week of March 9-13
Monday-Friday: optional office hours
Event: "Picturing Theory"
With Professors Marion Fourcade and Raka Ray (to be confirmed)
And graduate students who worked with on the Theory Posters
Reception and Mixer to follow
9. Week of March 16-20
Small groups #4
What do you mean by that? Understanding the comments on your assignments—and using feedback constructively.
10. Week of March 30-April 3
Small groups #5
Theory, Meet Data: how to argue like a sociologist
11. Week of April 6-10
Career Panel with Berkeley Sociology Alumni, Wednesday, April 8th, 6 p.m.
Telebears Begins Monday, April 6th.
Office hours: Intellectual and career advising
12. Week of April 13-17
Smallgroups #6
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13. Week of April 20-24
Office Hours: intellectual and career advising, continued
14. Week of April 27-May 1
Small groups #7
What is Sociology For?
Friday, May 2: Classes end
15 Week of May 4-8 RRR Week
Study Break, Tuesday, May 5th, 4- 5:30 p.m., 420 Barrows
In Fall 2015, the following sections of Berkeley Connect are available in Sociology:
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To help you meet other students who share your experiences and perspectives, Berkeley Connect sections are designated as lower division (first-year students and sophomores), new junior transfers, and upper division (juniors and seniors), but you can enroll in any section that fits your schedule and credit requirements.
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To participate in Berkeley Connect in Sociology, you enroll in a designated section of Sociology 98BC or 198BC (one unit, taken on a Pass/Not Pass basis). Many students chose to enroll for more than one semester. Participation is NOT restricted to declared majors.
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If Commissioner Roger Goodell gets his way, change could be coming to the NFL. Adding playoff teams. Monitoring instant replay from league headquarters. Possibly creating a set of guidelines to prevent locker-room bullying.… Extra Point:
There is no doubt about it. More replay. There should be the ability to replay nearly anything that happens on the field. Officials interpretations need to fact checked too. In the Super Bowl, the only challenge flag that was thrown was to review the spot of the football. Despite winning the challenge (the spot was changed), a timeout was still charged because the spot did not result in a first down. That's just stupid.
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Our recent blog post on image blocking in email received an awesome response. I generally gauge this by the quality of questions, rebuttals and comments that wash in, many of which are genuinely good food for thought. Like:
This statement "only 48% of email recipients see images automatically." does not actually result in "(the email being not read) by over half of its intended recipients." because presumably… some have changed the default settings. I would like to see some stats on how many users have changed their default settings to show images.
As it turns out, most folks don't tinker with their apps. According to this experiment by Jared Spool, less than 5% of users change their default settings, even when prompted. Jared's study required that users turn on autosaving of documents in Microsoft Word - a simple, beneficial change - and was just as surprised at the low uptake then as we are now. He explains:
When we interviewed a sample of (our users), they all told us the same thing: They assumed Microsoft had it turned off for a reason, therefore who were they to set it otherwise. "Microsoft must know what they are doing," several participants told us.
Now think about Outlook 2007. The first time I attempted to turn off image blocking in this email client, I had to Google around to find out where this setting could be (it's in their Trust Center). Do you think most Outlook users (excluding coders, designers or tech folk) would have the time, inclination or know-how to fool around and do the same?
Would most Yahoo! Mail users be bothered to change their similarly tucked-away spam settings, so images are displayed for trusted senders?
What this tells me is that email designers have to anticipate the worst. Images will be blocked in email clients. Just because .wmv videos do play in the inbox when Outlook's security settings are turned right down, doesn't mean that they will play. To take it a step further, if some of your subscribers are using CSS-unfriendly email clients like Gmail, you have to design like they all are. This doesn't mean that you can't use cool CSS effects and nice formatting - you just have to make sure the message is still very much readable, even under less-than-desirable conditions.
So test your emails with default settings on, even if it results in the worst-case rendering scenario. Chances are, that's what many of your subscribers are stuck with.
Thanks for this follow up. I definitely understand as marketers we have to expect the lowest common denominator, but what about individual email/sender behavior? My hunch is that if an email is wanted and valuable, the user simply hits "Always display images from this sender" and image blocking is no longer an issue. Any thoughts on this?
Not hitting "Always display…" out of laziness is always an issue. I'm guilty of it. Kind of like continuing to hit the delete button rather than unsubscribing. I vote design/test for worst case.
@Kelly - It's hard to say how often this happens. To take the 'Negative Nancy' view, could it be just as likely that the recipient will hit 'Delete' if they can't view the email? Or to use the example above, could many recipients assume that images are not being displayed because 'the email client knows what it's doing' and never enable them?
These are all contingencies that we have to prepare for, even if they run against the generally positive outlook that designers and marketers have :)
I almost never hit "always display" until perhaps a year of receiving an email and occasionally opening.
If only all were using Gmail then we could send actual video in that email easily!....the holy grail!
Being quoted on a Campaign Monitor blog post! It is and will be the height of my Internet fame. Great to see it sparked an investigation!
To be honest I'm not surprised, unfortunately the majority of people aren't aware of settings or preferences in most programs, therefore won't look to change the status quo.
Nice find Ros, now I can back up my assumptions with research :)
Having just moved my autoresponder service to GetResponse they disparagingly call plain text email as returning to the 80's yet it is for the very reasons that you highlight that I stick with it.
I wish to focus on the message and not have to focus on how to get the message delivered, it is after all hard enough to get them opened!
Images do add an extra element to the message but they can also hide malicious content and this is the pervading message that most non technical people are receiving. Not to trust html email.
Of course as more people move onto mobile Internet they are not going to be pleased when you waste a portion of their precious monthly allowance on an image that adds little to the message.
igor Griffiths
I never read a text placed between ugly blank image frames… I find the whole message disgusting!
So, I guess the people who have images disabled will never read an HTML message… I can optimize all I want, but they simply won't read it!


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Australia's Jason Day shot to the individual lead of the ISPS HANDA World Cup of Golf at Royal Melbourne, as he eyes the lucrative prize on offer.
Day shot a third-round five-under 66, to catapult himself to nine-under overall and the outright lead - one clear of Denmark's Thomas Bjorn, who could only card an even-par 71 on Saturday.
The local hopeful, Day is chasing the $1.2million prize for first in the individual competition, while he might also help Australia win the World Cup alongside Adam Scott - as together they lead the team competition at 11 under.
The United States are second on 10 under, with Matt Kuchar in third place and Kevin Streelman in fifth.
Kuchar is six under overall, while Streelman fell off the pace with a three-over third round to leave himself on four under.
Italy's Francesco Molinari is fourth, after his five-under 66 took him to five under overall.
Ireland lie joint-sixth overall, but Graeme McDowell put himself back in contention for individual honours with a round of 67, leaving him six shots behind the leader.
The team competition is a two-horse race, with Japan well back in third spot at four under with Hideto Tanihara in a tie for sixth and compatriot Ryo Ishikawa equal 12th.
Tanihara joins Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell on three under, after the latter carded a solid four-under 67 to keep alive his hopes of individual glory.
Scott continued his comeback after his horror-show opening-round 75, carding his second straight two-under 68 to be three-under overall and within striking distance.
Tied with Scott are lesser lights Kiradech Aphibarnrat of Thailand, Stuart Manley from Wales and Portugal's Ricardo Santos, although Manley was arguably the story of the day on Saturday.
The Welshman is playing solo at the tournament after European Tour star Jamie Donaldson withdrew from the event, and Manley had a day to remember.
While history will remember the round as a one-over 72, Manley began in a flurry - carding back-to-back birdies before a hole-in-one on the third had him thinking he had won a Mercedes.
However, Manley was told the car was not his - with the prize on offer only for aces in Sunday's final round - and his reaction was reflected in his next hole, when he carded an 11 on the par-four fourth.
Manley then went even par on his next four holes, before excelling again at holes 14 and 15, going birdie-eagle.
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The Big Four can only take the Celtics so far. Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen aren't getting any younger, and Game 2 proved that even when Rajon Rondo takes over, a Celtics win is not guaranteed.
In order to take down the Miami Heat and advance to the NBA Finals, the Celtics need to get contributions off the bench. In Game 3, Marquis Daniels stepped up, providing energy and contributing 17 minutes of solid basketball on both ends of the floor.
The bench contribution did not stop there. Keyon Dooling pitched in 20 minutes, attempting to fill the defensive void left by injured guard Avery Bradley. Mickael Pietrus also added to the defensive effort for the Celtics, holding his own against LeBron James and Dwayne Wade with his physical play.
And while he didn't provide a noteworthy performance in Game 3, Greg Stiemsma has proven to be a capable big man who can spell the starters for a handful of minutes per game.
The Celtics are looking to even the series Sunday night in Boston, and to do so, they will need another strong effort from the bench.
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The Union Buildings are located in Pretoria, South Africa's Capital. They are home to the official seat of the South African Government as well as the other main department offices of the government, including the Department of Foreign Affairs. The official offices of the South African President are also located here. Construction of the building began in 1910. The architect was Sir Herbert Baker and the style of its design is typically English, even the chimes of the clock are a direct copy of those of Big Ben. The twin towers of the building represent the Afrikaans and English languages and the inner courtyard symbolises the Union of the country. The building is surrounded by landscaped buildings which feature several monuments including a statue of South Africa's first president, General Louis Botha. The Union Buildings are officially recognised as a National Monument and stand on the highest point of the city. It is constructed of sandstone and measures 285 metres long.
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| Brian Dirck | February 8, 2013 |
| Brian Dirck, author of "Abraham Lincoln and White America." |
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"This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio,...
| ...it's February 2013, and we're approaching the 204th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. With well over 16,000 books already written about our 16th President, what new left to say? Surprisingly, a lot. Lincoln had more impact on race relations than perhaps any othTer individual in American history. This week we'll talk with Professor Brian Dirck about one of Lincoln's qualities that is so significant, relevant and obvious, that it is astonishing that no one has addressed in detail before. Professor Dirk is the author of "Abraham Lincoln and White America" and he joins us today on Civil War Talk Radio." |
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"Very entertaining"
I enjoy a good mystery and this was just the right fit.
I mostly read James Patterson so this was a lighter side from his murder mysteries which I found more enjoyable.
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I just ordered the first book in this series and I am sure will order all of them either in audible or to read.


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Legendary comic book artist and designer Jean Giraud, who often went by the pseudonym Moebius, died overnight at the age of 74 after a long illness, according to The Herald Sun. Moebius was perhaps best known for creating the Western anti-hero character Lieutenant Blueberry, and for his work at Marvel Comics on the Stan Lee scripted Silver Surfer: Parable. More recently, Giraud worked on Marvel's The Halo Graphic Novel.
Giraud's impact was long-reaching as he revolutionized comic books on foreign and American soil by shattering the conventional wisdom of composition and detail that was often featured in the medium. He created lush worlds with beautifully detailed double-page spreads that fans could look at countless times and still notice something new with every viewing.
His career wasn't just shackled to comics either as Giraud also worked as a designer in the film industry on movies such as Alien, The Empire Strikes Back, The Fifth Element, and Tron. He helped design worlds, creatures, and characters that helped revolutionize the sci-fi genre during the '80s.
Be sure to check out our slideshow above that shows just the tip of the iceberg of what Moebius could do.
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It was very enjoyable to speak with you about the Graphic & Web Design Internship. The job, as you presented it, seems to be a very good match for my skills and interests. In addition to my enthusiasm, I will bring to the position strong design skills, assertiveness, and the ability to work within a group. My artistic background will help me to work with artists on staff and provide me with an understanding of the visual and systematic aspects of our work.
I understand your need for someone who can hit the ground running. My detail orientation and organizational skills will help to free you to focus on larger issues. I appreciate the time you took to interview me. I am very interested in working for you and look forward to hearing from you about this position.
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Shen, F. W. and Chaganti, R. S. K. and Doucette, L. A. and Litman, G. W. and Steinmetz, M. and Hood, L. and Boyse, E. A. (1984) Genomic constitution of an H-2:Tla variant leukemia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 81 (20). pp. 6447-6450. ISSN 0027-8424. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:SHEpnas84
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A TL+ leukemia of a (B6 x A)F1 hybrid mouse (H-2b/H-2a) was previously subjected to immunoselection against H-2a by passage in (B6 x A.SW)F1 mice (H-2b/H-2s). A variant leukemia line was obtained that serologically lacked not only the H-2a phenotype but also the TL phenotype determined by the linked cis Tlaa allele of strain A. The H-2b phenotype and the TL phenotype of the Tlab allele of the B6 strain, which is expressed only by leukemia cells, were retained by the variant. Southern blotting with an H-2 cDNA probe that identifies restriction fragment polymorphisms distinguishing alleles of the H-2 and Tla regions of the B6 and A strains indicates that both the H-2a and Tlaa alleles are missing from the genome of this H-2a:Tlaa negative variant. Since the variant has two apparently unaltered chromosomes 17, where the H-2:Tla complex is situated, and since the intensity of bands in Southern blotting is suggestive of H-2b homozygosity, it is considered that loss of the H-2a:Tlaa haplotype by the variant was accompanied by duplication of the H-2b:Tlab haplotype. The implied change from heterozygosity to homozygosity that the variant has undergone with respect to H-2:Tla was not paralleled by a similar change at the three other loci tested, since the variant retained heterozygosity for Pep-3 (chromosome 1), Gpi-1 (chromosome 7), and Es-1 (chromosome 8).
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Layoff season has begun and it's no secret that there's more coming. And with the shrinking of the financial industry generally, some of you are probably going to have to think about transitioning to a new industry. One where you can use your above-average interpersonal skills, process management expertise, knowledge of cash flow modeling, and I don't know, I'm going to say maybe your familiarity with what goes on in the back room at New York Dolls.
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When JobSerf six years ago first tested its services with a few U.S. executive clients, its Indian workers applied on their behalf to a number of adult-entertainment companies.
"They were porn magnets," says Mr. Martin. "They'd apply to CEO and CFO jobs at every porn outfit out there," says Mr. Martin."
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Restoring water catchment areas leaves us flush
Spending on catchment areas provides solutions to the problems of water supply and demand, write Kristal Maze and Leonie Joubert.
Green paper is short on detail
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COP in or COP-out?
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The invisible refugee
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Pseudo-science: warts and all
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Terror on two wheels
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Darwin and the chicken's egg
Leonie JoubertDarwin showed how natural forces explain the origins of life. This was not a world that needed a divine sculptor.
A bittersweet remedy
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This specification is intended for the destructive ball drop testing of laminated flat glass products used in architectural glazing. It provides a basis for evaluating the impact performance of laminated flat glass when a 2.3 kg, 83 mm diameter smooth solid steel ball is dropped from a specified height. The requirements are applicable to laminated architectural flat glass products that are symmetrical and asymmetrical annealed, heat-strengthened, chemically strengthened, and fully tempered.
This abstract is a brief summary of the referenced standard. It is informational only and not an official part of the standard; the full text of the standard itself must be referred to for its use and application. ASTM does not give any warranty express or implied or make any representation that the contents of this abstract are accurate, complete or up to date.
1. Scope
1.1 This specification covers the destructive ball drop testing of laminated flat glass products intended for use in architectural glazing applications.
1.2 This specification is intended for use as an in-plant quality control test to evaluate the impact performance of laminated flat glass when a 2.3 kg, 83 mm diameter smooth solid steel ball is dropped from a specified height.
1.3 This specification does not yield data that is a substitute for safety glazing test requirements of ANSI Z97.1 or CPSC 16 CFR 1201. Qualification under this specification provides a basis for judgment of the ability of specimens to withstand the appropriate shot-bag impact. This specification provides a mechanism to allow fabricators a less cumbersome and lower cost method for the evaluation of impact performance that may be performed on a frequent basis while reducing the amount of waste materials generated from traditional impact tests.
1.4 This specification is applicable to symmetrical and asymmetrical annealed, heat-strengthened, chemically strengthened, fully tempered laminated architectural flat glass including but not limited to: float, patterned, sheet, sand-blasted, grooved, and fritted.
1.5 The values stated in SI units are to be regarded as standard. No other units of measurement are included in this standard.
1.6 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use. Some specific hazards statements are given in Section 4 on Hazards.
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C162 Terminology of Glass and Glass Products
C1036 Specification for Flat Glass
C1048 Specification for Heat-Strengthened and Fully Tempered Flat Glass
C1172 Specification for Laminated Architectural Flat Glass
C1422 Specification for Chemically Strengthened Flat Glass
E631 Terminology of Building Constructions
F3007 Test Method for Ball Drop Impact Resistance of Laminated Architectural Flat Glass
ANSI Standards
Z26.1 American National Standard for Safety Glazing Materials for Glazing Motor Vehicles and Motor Vehicle Equipment Operating on Land Highways--Safety Standard Z97.1 American National Standard for Safety Glazing Materials Used in Buildings--Safety Performance Specification and Methods of TestOther Standards
CPSC16CFR1201 Safety Standard for Architectural Glazing Materials Available from U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), 4330 East West Hwy., Bethesda, MD 20814, http://www.cpsc.gov. GANALD-100-06 Standard Test Method for Ball Drop Impact of Laminated Architectural Flat Glass Available from Glass Association of North America (GANA), Laminating Division, 2945 SW Wanamaker Dr., Suite A, Topeka, KS 66614-5321, http://www.glasswebsite.com.ICS Code
ICS Number Code 81.040.20 (Glass in building)
UNSPSC Code
UNSPSC Code 30171705(Laminated glass)
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ASTM F3006-13, Standard Specification for Ball Drop Impact Resistance of Laminated Architectural Flat Glazing, ASTM International, West Conshohocken, PA, 2013, www.astm.org
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Jewish Museum Berlin exhibit stirs controversy
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